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110 foundations that funded “Southern”
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Private foundation · Atlanta, GA
Southern Company Gas Charitable Foundation Inc.
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8 Tennessee grants totaling $239,000 · typical grant $25,000 to $50,000 (tax year 2024)
75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Signature; Social justice; Community enrichment
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Public charity · Chattanooga
Southern Health Plan Inc.
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $36,649 · typical grant $5,600 to $10,000 (tax year 2024)
60% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
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Public charity · Durham, NC
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $40,000 · typical grant $10,000 (tax year 2024)
75% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Solve spark grant
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Public charity · Atlanta, GA
Southern Partners Fund Inc.
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $75,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $45,000 (tax year 2024)
67% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Social,Economic & Environm Justice
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Public charity · Durham, NC
Southern Vision Alliance
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $30,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Qmf grant - southern intermediaries project; Frontline funds solidarity grant
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Private foundation · Orlando, FL
Southern Fruit Distributors Fund Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,500 · typical grant $1,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Contributionto generaloperating fund
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Private foundation · Mount Olive, NC
Southern Bank Foundation
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $7,500 · typical grant $7,500 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: Public Benefit
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Public charity · Burbank, CA
Public Media Group of Southern California
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $100,000 · typical grant $50,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: Funding for civic engagement project
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Private foundation · Bryantown, MD
Wicomico Valley Foundation of Southern Maryland Inc.
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1 Tennessee grant totaling $1,000 · typical grant $1,000 (1 grant) (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Community foundation · Tucson, AZ
Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
Invitation only · Gives through donors' accounts: donors choose, you can't apply
2 Tennessee grants totaling $61,455 · typical grant $20,000 to $41,455 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
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Private foundation · Los Altos, CA
The Heising-Simons Foundation
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5 Tennessee grants totaling $880,033 · typical grant $125,000 to $206,691 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: For grantmakers for southern progress; To implement phase two of the astrophysics postdoctoral launch program; To enhance mathematics learning in early childhood classrooms;...
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Private foundation · New York, NY
The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc.
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $180,000 · typical grant $20,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: 2024-2025 grantmakers for southern progress annual membership; Directors cancer innovation fund (general fund)
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Arcus Foundation
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $106,654 · typical grant $504 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: 2024 grantmakers for southern progress membership support
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Private foundation · Durham
Laughing Gull Foundation
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3 Tennessee grants totaling $160,000 · typical grant $35,000 to $80,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: TN prison college coalition; Southern hep collective
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Private foundation · San Francisco, CA
Stupski Foundation
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2 Tennessee grants totaling $110,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $100,000 (tax year 2024)
100% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support the Appalachian Rekindling Project.; To support the Southern Power Fund.
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Public charity · Atlanta, GA
South Arts Inc.
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19 Tennessee grants totaling $343,478 · typical grant $5,250 to $20,000 (tax year 2024)
58% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: In These Mountains - Cargill 3rd Grant; FY25 SA/NEA Regional Engagement / Arts in Community; FY24 SA/NEA Regional Engagement / Arts in Community; FY25 NEA ArtsHERE; Southern...
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Public charity · Minneapolis, MN
Borealis Philanthropy
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6 Tennessee grants totaling $926,400 · typical grant $50,000 to $220,000 (tax year 2024)
50% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To support the work of fiscal projects; To support the work of decarcerate Memphis; To support the work of Nashville community bail fund; To support the work of my sistah's...
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
Kodiak Cares Foundation
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $120,000 · typical grant $10,000 to $75,000 (tax year 2024)
Funded only returning groups in its latest year
Funded: J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area; Texas Gulf Coast Initiative (GCI); Southern Prairies & Playas Initiative; Texas Gulf Coast Initiative
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Private foundation · New York, NY
Foundation for A Just Society
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $625,100 · typical grant $100,000 to $275,000 (tax year 2024)
33% of its latest Tennessee winners were new to it
Funded: To provide emergency support for hurricane helene relief work; To provide general operating support; To provide philanthropic advocacy support to grantmakers for southern...
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Private foundation · Wilmington, DE
The Kendeda Fund
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4 Tennessee grants totaling $1.3 million · typical grant $50,000 to $1 million (tax year 2023)
Funded: Operating Reserve Fund; For participation in Kendeda Fund's sustainability cohort; Grantmakers for Southern Progress for General Operating Support with a focus on the...
Source: each funder's latest e-filed IRS return. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which lists the grants they paid and how to apply. Community foundations, United Ways and other public charities file Form 990, and we use its Schedule I (grants over $5,000). We include every funder, wherever it is based, whose latest return lists grants to Tennessee groups. Corporate and community-foundation grant rounds are in the grant search.